I think thats the whole point, they WANT them to give them away to people.
The more iPods out there, the more people who might visit iTunes Music Store or who might enjoy the iPod so much, they buy a Mac (which acourding to recent statistics actually seems to be working for Apple.)
You could always use your phone as a modem, and contrary to the article it WASNT illicit.
If you had the contract (and the money) you could use the high speed network using Verizons buisness plan, you got a USB cable and some software and you where good to go, if you just used your phone as a modem though without the plan, you where limited to 14.4 but it was free and NOT against contract. Infact I used it all the time when I lived in a apartment and couldnt use the modem because I needed the phone, but ALSO needed to go online. I even have the booklet FROM Verizon that says I could do this.
it seems all this is, is that Verizon now ungimps their bluetooth modem ability, nothing more.
basically make it like WoW... which has its own very publicised gold farming and RMT issues themselves. Even Diablo had hackers who duped gold so your idea doesnt work very well.
and you know honestly dubbing has gone a LONG way. Watch Excel Saga or Cowboy Bebop and youll find the dub is equal to or even BETTER than the original japanese (expecially in the case of cowboy bebop)
This is the EXACT same bullshit they pulled when OS 9 went to OS X, sept worse, since there really isnt nearly as much to translate between the packages. Honestly it almost seems Adobe does this to screw with Apple, since they know no production houses (Apples bread and butter) will go over to the new systems unless they update these programs and even they it will take a while.
not very conclusive testing. they did blunt force, but have you ever had one of those slim cellphones? they snap in half which is what the nano can easily do.
Ever tried to snap a lego brick in half? thats about how strong the Shuffle case is.
People buy the iPod shuffle cause they DONT want a Nano. Nano's are fragile. VERY fragile, and while it might work with care a gym is a very unforgiving place.
Likewise one of the best uses for my Shuffle has been that I can use it as a flash drive. It works great, and loads on EVERYTHNG and is about the size a flash drive should be, which is NOT what the Nano is.
Nothing says they cant just throw a screen on the tiny Shuffle form factor, even if it mattered which looking at Apple's Sales figures, it didnt.
Looks to me this is just some more uninformed analyst chestbeating.
the first few seasons had tits and ass. They even billed it as being a bit harder than the movie was at fiirst. The tits and ass scene was actually played up!
Then it was moved and that ended that pretty much.
oh look its my little troll who posts 2 days after the fact so he can get his word in when now one is looking and is too chicken to even sign his name to it.
Give it a rest man, people have bashed you enough.
little known fact. The indians dying from diseased blankets is a misstruth. While Im sure one or two might have, there is little evidence to support the claim made by journals of that time.
well a few things I DO know about the next expantion
1) SE basically said 75 is it, what they are doing is expending the merit system even further beyond the extra merit points added in the Dec update. There are plans to have "merit only" abilitys added to the game where you will have to spend merits to get the ability to further expand your character. As it is currently a fully merited character would = a lvl 85 player.
2) SE has said that they plan ToAH to have a lot of solo content, if this is true or not we will see in a month when it makes its public debut at FFXIFest in Santa Monica, but if this IS true, it would go very much into why SE would ballance the BST solo capabilitys to = a normal players abilitys.
There is one more job comming, yet again another mage type character, so it would see SE understands there are too many melee types and not enough mages.
There is going to be one more major announcment involving ToAU which will be revealed at the FFXIFest by the developers themselves in a panel.
Treasures of Aht Urhgan just got its worldwide April 18th release date along with the second of the new jobs being announced (Corsair, a pirate/gambler mix that uses a special gun to support and buff party members based on luck) along with the reveal that ToAU will have another "Jueno" like main city hub added that will also somehow involve enemy raids into the hub city.
no that figure was from Nov 05, it just so happens it roughly the same as their 04 figure. It is very popular, but the truth is there are a lot of sites that focus ONLY on FFXI that people dont go to those other sites (Alla is the only exception I can think of)
Killing Ifrit Somepage and the japanese based Mystery Tour are solely based around FFXI as well as the Alla forums which are always hopping with asshats.
Also there was a lot of buzz leading into the last expantion, and the buzz is picking up again for the April expantion comming out. If you really think about it, if you played WoW GW CoH or SWG you wouldnt think any other MMO existed, when the truth is there are well over 30-40 MMOs out there, with FFXI being the third largest not counting GW which most people dont count as a MMO (behind WoW and Lineage II another MMO people almost never hear about but had a playerbase rivaling WoW)
1) they where NEVER trying to shut down a fan rumor site, they SIMPLY wanted to know who illegaly leaked info TO the site. The site in question decided it was going against his (questionable) journalistic rights, if he had told right off the back who it was who broke the Apple NDA, not one damn thing would have come from it sept the site learning it has to play the SAME rules major newspapers and mags play with, and not think they are immune simply cause they are a snot-nosed college kid running a website. Saying there is rumor about possible things comming out of Apple and outright releasing detailed contents of a NDA agreement are two different things, and all Thinksecret did was released the actual contents of a NDA, which is blatently illegal even if TS didnt sign the NDA themselves.
2) They didnt shut down anything, they decided to not continue to licence their ROM which is 100% legal and not even remotely questionable. They didnt break any contracts, the contract was simply up and Apple said we are sorry but we arnt going to be re-signing.
NOW if you want to get to questionable practices, bring up anything involving Jobs and his illigiitimate daughter Lisa. What happened there was immoral though Jobs saw the light in his ways eventually. But those two things really dont support any statement about Apples buisness practice, since anyone would have done that.
who cares about beauty? seriously this belief that graphics are more important over gameplay has got to end. I can give two craps if I can smell the BO on my players the graphics are so good, I want gameplay not graphics.
No its likely that the writer used Sonys notorious "shipped" figures rather than true sales. The truth is other than 2 months the DS has outsold the PSP in the States every single month since. Sony on the other hand always releases data that they shipped more units than Nintendo, but nothing is kept track of as to if the units actually made it into peoples hands.
Eventually ts going to bite back on Sony as if my local NY-NJ area stores are any indication, they are currently overstocked and unable to sell the units while they cant keep the DS in the store.
The problem with compairing private to public is that the pure nature of private institutions allow for it to be much better.
1) they can fail out whoever doesn't make the grade, its illegal to fail out a public school student
2) Private schools unless they take public money do NOT have to follow any public guidelines, the nature of which are 90% of the problem in public schools, because they require numerous insignificant tests and the teaching of pointless PC subjects while not focusing on the basics.
Bad analogy. The bodys always last on new cars, 99% of the R&D is done on a current platform that might be the basis of the new one. Perfect example, the Cobalt, Ion and certain European cars use the same platform. When the R&D for the cobalt and ion was being done, they just used the already produced European models to test the drivetrain and engines before putting them into the designed and hidden away body, before all of the R&D was done but most of the major road testing was, they showed off the concept car so the first real look of the finished product only came then.
I can see why WotC could be pissed, because it is well know that new sets can change what are winning decks in later tornys and have a major effect on what are big cards are and their second hand market value.
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no cause Apple only gets about 15 cents to every dollar if Im not mistaken while the record company/artist gets the rest.
I think thats the whole point, they WANT them to give them away to people. The more iPods out there, the more people who might visit iTunes Music Store or who might enjoy the iPod so much, they buy a Mac (which acourding to recent statistics actually seems to be working for Apple.)
I have dropped kicked thrown and accidentally gotten my shuffle stuck in a door (yay public school IT support) and its only got a few nicks in it.
the thing is like a Lego brick, I cant imagine what you did to it to get it to be trashed other than to put it into water....
I wasnt the one using the land line, I realized that didnt quite make sense after I wrote it lol.
right, but given I wasnt using it till after 9 it was pretty much free, just reminded me of my old days running a BBS ;-)
If you had the contract (and the money) you could use the high speed network using Verizons buisness plan, you got a USB cable and some software and you where good to go, if you just used your phone as a modem though without the plan, you where limited to 14.4 but it was free and NOT against contract. Infact I used it all the time when I lived in a apartment and couldnt use the modem because I needed the phone, but ALSO needed to go online. I even have the booklet FROM Verizon that says I could do this.
it seems all this is, is that Verizon now ungimps their bluetooth modem ability, nothing more.
basically make it like WoW... which has its own very publicised gold farming and RMT issues themselves. Even Diablo had hackers who duped gold so your idea doesnt work very well.
and you know honestly dubbing has gone a LONG way. Watch Excel Saga or Cowboy Bebop and youll find the dub is equal to or even BETTER than the original japanese (expecially in the case of cowboy bebop)
This is the EXACT same bullshit they pulled when OS 9 went to OS X, sept worse, since there really isnt nearly as much to translate between the packages. Honestly it almost seems Adobe does this to screw with Apple, since they know no production houses (Apples bread and butter) will go over to the new systems unless they update these programs and even they it will take a while.
not very conclusive testing. they did blunt force, but have you ever had one of those slim cellphones? they snap in half which is what the nano can easily do. Ever tried to snap a lego brick in half? thats about how strong the Shuffle case is.
Likewise one of the best uses for my Shuffle has been that I can use it as a flash drive. It works great, and loads on EVERYTHNG and is about the size a flash drive should be, which is NOT what the Nano is.
Nothing says they cant just throw a screen on the tiny Shuffle form factor, even if it mattered which looking at Apple's Sales figures, it didnt.
Looks to me this is just some more uninformed analyst chestbeating.
the first few seasons had tits and ass. They even billed it as being a bit harder than the movie was at fiirst. The tits and ass scene was actually played up! Then it was moved and that ended that pretty much.
oh look its my little troll who posts 2 days after the fact so he can get his word in when now one is looking and is too chicken to even sign his name to it. Give it a rest man, people have bashed you enough.
little known fact. The indians dying from diseased blankets is a misstruth. While Im sure one or two might have, there is little evidence to support the claim made by journals of that time.
1) SE basically said 75 is it, what they are doing is expending the merit system even further beyond the extra merit points added in the Dec update. There are plans to have "merit only" abilitys added to the game where you will have to spend merits to get the ability to further expand your character. As it is currently a fully merited character would = a lvl 85 player.
2) SE has said that they plan ToAH to have a lot of solo content, if this is true or not we will see in a month when it makes its public debut at FFXIFest in Santa Monica, but if this IS true, it would go very much into why SE would ballance the BST solo capabilitys to = a normal players abilitys.
There is one more job comming, yet again another mage type character, so it would see SE understands there are too many melee types and not enough mages.
There is going to be one more major announcment involving ToAU which will be revealed at the FFXIFest by the developers themselves in a panel.
Treasures of Aht Urhgan just got its worldwide April 18th release date along with the second of the new jobs being announced (Corsair, a pirate/gambler mix that uses a special gun to support and buff party members based on luck) along with the reveal that ToAU will have another "Jueno" like main city hub added that will also somehow involve enemy raids into the hub city.
Killing Ifrit Somepage and the japanese based Mystery Tour are solely based around FFXI as well as the Alla forums which are always hopping with asshats.
Also there was a lot of buzz leading into the last expantion, and the buzz is picking up again for the April expantion comming out. If you really think about it, if you played WoW GW CoH or SWG you wouldnt think any other MMO existed, when the truth is there are well over 30-40 MMOs out there, with FFXI being the third largest not counting GW which most people dont count as a MMO (behind WoW and Lineage II another MMO people almost never hear about but had a playerbase rivaling WoW)
um unless I mistaken their payload specialist was Japanese, not American. and the shuttle its self was built buy a few nations, Canada, US, Japan.
ahh but they also pass up obvious opertunities to cut price in favore of market share too.
2) They didnt shut down anything, they decided to not continue to licence their ROM which is 100% legal and not even remotely questionable. They didnt break any contracts, the contract was simply up and Apple said we are sorry but we arnt going to be re-signing.
NOW if you want to get to questionable practices, bring up anything involving Jobs and his illigiitimate daughter Lisa. What happened there was immoral though Jobs saw the light in his ways eventually. But those two things really dont support any statement about Apples buisness practice, since anyone would have done that.
who cares about beauty? seriously this belief that graphics are more important over gameplay has got to end. I can give two craps if I can smell the BO on my players the graphics are so good, I want gameplay not graphics.
Eventually ts going to bite back on Sony as if my local NY-NJ area stores are any indication, they are currently overstocked and unable to sell the units while they cant keep the DS in the store.
1) they can fail out whoever doesn't make the grade, its illegal to fail out a public school student
2) Private schools unless they take public money do NOT have to follow any public guidelines, the nature of which are 90% of the problem in public schools, because they require numerous insignificant tests and the teaching of pointless PC subjects while not focusing on the basics.
I can see why WotC could be pissed, because it is well know that new sets can change what are winning decks in later tornys and have a major effect on what are big cards are and their second hand market value.